511 Quotes About British

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

Independence Day, July 4th, or as I know it: Out with the British day!

Independence Day, July 4th, or as I know it: The end of tea parties!

The next morning we experienced our very first “full English breakfast,” which consisted of tea, orange juice, cookies, oatmeal, granola, berries, bananas, croissants, grapes, pineapples, prunes, yogurt, five kinds of cold cereal, eggs, hash browns, back bacon, sausage, smoked salmon, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, toast, butter, jam, jelly, and honey. I don’t know how the British do it.

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

Despite being English, they served an edible meal." -A Long Petal of the Sea, page 108

Did you know the Brits have a dish called “neeps and tatties” and not a single one of the four British people I polled has ever thought to call it “nips and titties”? Seriously, how do you miss an opportunity to call something nips and titties! I don’t care how blue your blood is, no one is so important that a solid dick joke is beneath them. (See how that works, your majesty?)

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.